Clark does have the record for Total points and assists (60) (and also set the record for total turnovers with 35). Sheryl Swoopes averaged more points per game (35.4) but played 1 less game and still holds the record for points in a Championship game with 47 in a 2 point win over Ohio State in 1993.
WBB: General All-NCAA Thread - Not Team Cyclones Stuff
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Iowa doesn’t have a bench and because of that they have to avoid playing tough defense. That was the difference in the game. Iowa didn’t have someone who could come off the bench and score 10 points.
I always told friends if someone can get Iowa into foul trouble they were toast. They still made an admirable comeback effort.
And when Clark and Czinano were both on the bench, their offense looked lost. Their two backup post players were OK, but there is a big dropoff from Czinano, and the backup point guard that transferred from Central Michigan is a huge dropoff.
The thing is, they had plenty of games during the season to use their bench, plus had a deep bench, and it was never developed.
The big variable in this game was the refs. I wonder if they were picked on merit or for some other reason?
As for the post game stuff, this seems to be a reflection of what this generation wants and admires. It's defended by female journalists like Holly Rowe. Does it help our game, IDK?
As for the post game stuff, this seems to be a reflection of what this generation wants and admires. It's defended by female journalists like Holly Rowe. Does it help our game, IDK?
I mayy be wrong, but I believe Reese was tournament MVP, not game MVP.
I don't know why there is so much hate for the officials. The calls were about the same for each team and I thought with the exception of a couple (for both teams) they were calling per the book. When a game gets rough people complain they need to call fouls when they call fouls people shout "Let them play". You get a feel early on how a game will be called and unless they do a 180 at half a good team will see this and play to keep out of foul trouble.
About as bad a post as I have ever read.
Want to say much more - but I will just get deleted.
Go away
Your point is supported by the two calls on Clark for pushing off on her drives, in one case, grabbing the defender's hand. She's been doing that all season, and it wasn't called, but in this game, it was. Clark is as impressive on her inside drives as she is on the 3, but her drives were less effective when she could not push off.
I don't quite understand the hate for Clark. She is a generational player. And to achieve that level of success, she takes everything the game, including the officials, will give her. And that includes working the officials. And trash talking.
WRT the officials, I thought a few calls were pretty ticky tacky - but they were the same for both teams. LSU was able to manage that situation and the Hawks were not - in part due to the short bench previously mentioned.
KidSilverhair
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I think technically it is Final Four MOP (Most Outstanding Player).
LSU defended Clark about as well as anyone I have seen in the tournament and she still dropped 30 and 8 on them even with the foul problems. Been saying it all tournament that you just have to accept she is going to make some of those rediculously long 3 pointers even if you guard her well but the way to limit her is to take away the easy lane to the basket and force the rest of the Iowa team to beat you. You also have to go right after her if she does attempt to play defense on a drive as Iowa protects her with that zone where all she has to do is guard anything about 15+ away from the hoop and if someone gets past her she relies on that zone to pick up the drive. That is part of why SC looked so bad against Iowa, they gave her way too many lanes to the hoop and she drove on them all night and it took them being down by a lot in the 3rd to finally start letting that 1 girl shoot the wide open 3's Clark was giving her all night.
Both offensive fouls they called on Clark should have been called and she usually gets away with a lot more of those most games but defensively you have to stay on her and force them to call that else she is just going to drive on you all night. As for the technical, it was a weak call but she has a reputation of whining about every foul called on Iowa so my guess is the ref just had enough and felt it was a frustration toss by her. That is the 1 part of her game I dislike is she is the best damn player on the floor every night but still does a lot of complaining. She probably gets away with a lot more than she realizes.
The taunting by the LSU player was petty but Clark had just done the same to Louisville so don't have a lot of room to be made about it as Clark does a lot of trash talking and antics herself and I am guessing she probably would have done something to rub LSU fans the wrong way had Iowa won so it is what it is. I think the technical and being humbled the way she was by the end of the game where she couldn't be her usual cocky self hopefully is a lesson to be learned that its an area of how she carries herself on the court that can be improved on. Just play the damn game and let your play do all the talking as she doesn't need to prove anything or let anyone know how good she is because we all see it when she plays at the high level that she does.
One NCAA appearance in his final five years and he is going to be 65. Why would they bring him back?
